That is usually only good for your local machine. Try file:/// (yes 3 slashes) in your browser, you should see your root filesystem. -Bill On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 02:29 -0700, Craig White wrote: > Playing with a wiki setup and was thinking that a number of files could > be grouped on a wiki page (or for that matter in any html document) and > files can be referenced - i.e. a Microsoft Word Document or Open Office > Document, etc. > > The problem with an http reference is that it is really slow to get > opened in your word processory... > > For example... > > http://SERVER/files/test-document.sxw > > when I click this, it launches a new browser windows (reasonably > provided by wiki), downloads the document to my /tmp directory (similar > on Windows and Macintosh) and then launches application and finally, > opens the document from it's temporary location. > > This process takes maybe 20 - 30 seconds. > > So I vaguely recalled that there was something like > file://SERVER/files/test-document.sxw but I don't recall where and that > clearly doesn't work - at least not universally as browsers complain > that 'file' isn't a known service. > > Does anybody have a suggestion on a method to accomplish delivering > files from an http server (or more specifically a wiki) that is fast and > somewhat if not totally universal across OS Types/browsers. > > Thanks > > Craig > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- Bill Warner --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss